Word2Vec is getting referenced a lot these days, but that doesn't mean much about the referencing paper. This approach is pretty unique in trying to apply CNNs

Word2Vec is getting referenced a lot these days, but that doesn't mean much about the referencing paper. This approach is pretty unique in trying to apply CNNs (which are very successful in image recognition) to NLP. But it's not yet clear to me whether these are just tricks or are they really onto some key insight.